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HANCOCK — The Market Beef registration deadline for the Houghton County Fair is this Sunday, February 15, 2026. Youth from Houghton or Keweenaw County aged 9 to 19 on December 31, 2026, are eligible to enter. New this year, both beef steers and beef heifers are eligible for the market ...

To your good health

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DEAR DR. ROACH: I read your recent column about using the immune system to prevent cancer, but I think that there will never be a "vaccine" to prevent anyone from getting cancer in the first place! There is too much money involved. — D.K. ANSWER: I hear this occasionally, and I don't believe ...

Dear Annie

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Dear Annie: I'm a 75-year-old widow who has lived in the same little Cape for 43 years. I still do my own shopping, I drive myself to church, and I host Sunday supper when my joints cooperate. I'm not fragile, but I am ... older. And lately, I feel like everyone is determined to treat me like ...

Marquette sculpture park vandalized

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MARQUETTE — Last Wednesday, Tom Lakenen of Lakenenland in Marquette, found his sculpture park had been vandalized. “There was fresh snow and a few fresh snowmobile tracks Wednesday morning, no other tracks,” said Lakenen. “Back at the lean-to by the snowmobile trail, a sculpture was ...

Want to go back in time?

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COPPER HARBOR — Three positions are available for seasonal employment this summer at Fort Wilkins State Park and Copper Harbor Lighthouse in Copper Harbor. These positions are not the run-of-the-mill summer jobs, however. “The positions are for costumed interpreters role playing as if it is ...